Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Traveling by Car
Learn how the Model T automobile changed public transportation and how the national highway system was the rest of the story about America's love affair with the automobile.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Public Key Encryption
Public Key Encryption, an asymmetric encryption technique, is used to allow computers to securely communicate. The high level process is explained in this article.
Read Works
Read Works: New Lives for Old Buses
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an African country that uses old school buses for public transportation. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Montgomery Bus Boycott
Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks along with other early protestors sparked a yearlong boycott of the Montgomery bus system that culminated in the desegregation of public transportation in Alabama and throughout the country.
Other
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe: Berlin Transport Services
BVG is Berlin's public transportation site - bus, S-Bahn, U-Bahn. Information and maps for getting around in Berlin. A well-organized resource. Content is in German.
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting the Future
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a futurist named Garry Golden and his predictions about transportation in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
New York Public Library: Small Town America
This site provides pictures to help you understand the way of life during the turn of the twentieth century. Enter the collection and click on "Browse" for a drop down menu of collections of photographs of "street scenes in cities,...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 10: Los Viajes
In this tenth unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about transportation systems in Spanish-speaking countries and how people travel. They will listen, speak, and write about traveling using related vocabulary. They will...
Other
New York Public Library: A Hudson River Portfolio
Learn about the Hudson River and the role it played in the westward and northward expansion of America (to the Great Lakes regions and to Canada) in the nineteenth century. Useful for understanding the importance of rivers as means of...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Future Beyond Traffic Gridlock
Bill Ford is a car guy- his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars' impact on the environment, and about our growing global gridlock problem, it's worth a listen....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Land! Water! Sky! Oh My!
This lesson focuses on the importance of airplanes in today's society. Airplanes of all shapes and sizes are used for hundreds of different reasons, including recreation, commercial business, public transportation, and delivery of goods,...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of how the steam engine transformed the railroad industry and played crucial roles in the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion.
Other
New York Subway History: Beach Pneumatic Transit
Not all inventions turn out to be good ideas! Read about Alfred Ely Beach's idea to build a pneumatic tube under the streets of New York City for subway trains to use.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 10: Persuasive Essay [Pdf]
From the novel titled "We the Media," this essay from writer Adam Hochschild presents a persuasive argument against the volume of televisions in places of public transport. A good model which can be used as a resource for students.
Other
Us Department of Justice: Americans With Disabilities Act
The official homepage for the Americans with Disabilities Act provides information on standards for accessible design, business connections, public transportation, housing, labor, and stories on how communities have improved civic access.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Public Health, 1900 1999 Motor Vehicle Safety
Read about the reduction in vehicle-related deaths and the safety measures that made traveling safer. This article includes some information on the Highway Safety Act and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Acts, through which...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
PBS
Nova: Car of the Future
In this activity, student teams research and develop a proposal to decrease the carbon footprint of their city's/town's public transportation system and then prepare a report that explains why their transportation plan is the best for...
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: The Second Industrial Revolution
An overview of the achievements that occurred during the second Industrial Revolution are found on this site. It includes information on gas and electric power, communications, public transportation, the motor and flight industries, and...
Other
How Do I? A Practical Guide to Living in America
Miami-based law firm, Immigration Law Offices, Inc., provides information for new immigrants about basic tasks, such as finding housing, making phone calls, mailing letters, opening bank accounts, learning English, finding a doctor, and...
Read Works
Read Works: New Lives for Old Buses
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about old school buses being used for public transportation in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Rosa Parks Arrested
This 3-part article explores Rosa Park's famous act of civil disobedience -- refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and the 1956 Supreme...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal
Learn about the Erie Canal, one of the most famous man-made bodies of water in the world. Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal connected the port of New York City on the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes transforming trade, industry, and...
Digital History
Digital History: The South's Economy
A good look at the economy of the South prior to the Civil War. Read a good explanation of how the use of slave labor impeded technological innovation and a lack of urban development. See how transportion improvements and good public...